AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 October 1928, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

A MASTER CRIMINAL. • (Australian Press Association.) (Received this day at 11.25. a.m.) SYDNEY, Oct. 3, Frank Broady, a master criminal with a had record in New Zealand, where he escaped from gaol, was convicted here of receiving, and was declared an habitual criminal. CHURCH COLLECTIONS. SYDNEY, Oct. 3. At the Anglican Synod, Diocese of Sydney, Archbishop Wright recommended envelope collections similar' to those in New Zealand, where during a recent • visit he discovered J they had .superseded the ordinary plate collections yith success. ' ■ 'j- ' - ' ~* 5 4 \ \ • • A. BIG ESTATE * A ,/, ’' 'SYDNEY, [ Oct. (j' Under the Will, of the late'Sir James Fairfax, £IO,OOO was bequeathed t<o\ Sydney University, a similar .amount' to Sydney Grammar School, and one half of his shares in the “Herald” to his son Wabwiqk. (The values |c|f j the : testator’s New South Wales estate was £731,371. . :i . ' :'C

VICTORIAN BUDGET. MELBOURNE, Oct. 2. In the Victorian Mr, Hogap, deli veiled the- budget, ..In his speech he said t.o-flay. that. tl)e v ernment proposed to cany on the ensuing year without any additional taxation, and the Government hoped/ at the, same time to conclude the year with ha small surplus, perhaps one’ of twenty-five thousand sterling.